Since it was reformed 40 years ago, Finland's education system has frequently been held up as one of the best in the world. Today, that changed. Tbe OECD released its PISA global rankings that showed ...

Conversations change. Instead of fretting about why French women do not get fat, we’re now obsessed with why public schools in Finland are so good. An official with Finland’s Ministry of Education and ...

Last week, Annie Murphy Paul’s review of Amanda Ripley’s book, “The Smartest Kids in the World”, began with Ripley’s quote: “If you want the American dream, go to Finland.” It just so happened that I ...

Year after year, Finland is ranked as one of the world leaders in education while America lags far behind. But it's not that Finland knows more about how to build effective schools than the US does.

An equal school system, a science-based teacher training programme and a high regard for teachers. These are the ingredients that make Finland's education the best in the world. In the future, ...

How has one industrialized country created one of the world’s most successful education systems in a way that is completely hostile to testing? That’s the question asked — and answered — in a new ...

Apples and oranges — that's what it's like to compare the education systems of the U.S. and Finland. Finland's is wildly successful — consistently topping international rankings. The United States' ...

As Vietnam seeks to advance education reform, educational leadership has become an increasingly important topic in discussions on system-level improvement and school governance. These issues were ...

The initiative began in late 2015 when Finnish schools and educators were invited to submit their ideas for experiments to be trialed over the course of one school year. More than 700 hundred schools ...